Ammunitions and Weapons Surplus Treatment in the Croatian Armed Forces

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REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
MINISTRY OF DEFENSE
GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARMED FORCES
Ammunitions and Weapons Surplus
Treatment in the Croatian Armed Forces
DS SANKO BAKIJA, MoD – M3
LtC IGOR LONČARIĆ, GS – J4
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Contents
1. Introduction
2. Weapons Surplus - survey
3. Ammunition Surplus - survey
4. Disposal of Weapons Surplus
5. Disposal of Ammunition Surplus
6. Ammunition storage incident
7. Cooperation with ITF
8. Advantages of Surplus Weapons and Ammunition
Disposal
9. The Way Ahead – National and Regional Level
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Introduction
Ammunition & Weapons disposal process was covering by
ministerial decisions which included types and quantity of A&W
intended for disposal at three ways: sale, donation and
destruction/disabled,
Procedures of ammunitions destroying based on the open
burning/open detonation and industrial demilitarization
techniques,
Procedures for weapons destruction based on the disable of
armaments (SALW and heavy weapon) and partly selling scrap
materials,
Processes are conducts through activity of MoD an General Staff
inside Army Repair Facility facility according to prescribed
regulations and commands.
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Weapons Surplus - survey
Weapons surplus:
• Tanks and combat vehicles – battle tanks type T-55
quantity of 185 pieces and combat infantry vehicles
type BOV-3 quantity of 3 pieces,
• Guns, howitzer and mortars: 130 different pieces (20
mm, 40 mm, 105 mm, 120 mm, 122 mm,130 mm,152
mm, 203 mm),
• SALW – 2.028 pieces of pistols,
• Battleship: submarine class “Velebit”,
• Combat helicopter: type MI-24V quantity of 7 pieces,
Surplus of weapons warehousing at 5 locations.
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Ammunition Surplus - survey
The surplus, non perspective and obsolete ammunition
intended to disposal, in quantity of 18 000 tons are
roughly structured as follow:
- infantry ammunition (14,5 mm and below): 15 %
- mortar bombs (60 –120 mm): 5 %
- cannon, tank and cluster ammunition (20–203 mm): 42%
- missiles – MLRS and Air Forces missiles: 15 %
- anti tank mines: 10 %
- torpedoes: 1%
- aircraft bombs: 2%
- bulk explosives and propellants, fuses, warheads: 10 %
Surplus of ammunitions stored at 10 locations.
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Disposal of Surplus Weapons
• The surpluses of small arms and heavy weapons are
disabled and destroyed with cutting technique in the
Army Repair Facility in Zagreb and sold as secondary
raw materials.
• The destruction capacity of small arms and light
weapons is approximately 500 pieces/day.
• The various types of heavy weapons in quantity of
1062 pieces (tanks, guns, planes, helicopters) and
26.000 pieces of small arms disabled and destroyed in
the period from 1996.–2011.
• The quantity of 1.000 pieces of AK47 rifles with 300.000
rounds donated to the Afghan army in 2007.
• The quantity of 500 pieces of AK47 rifles donated to the
Iraq army in 2010.
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Disposal of Surplus Ammunition
• In the period 2001-2012 around 6 035 tons of various
types of ammunition sold. Income from sale was 15
around million €.
• Between 2001. to 2012, about 6.800 tons of various
ammunition destroyed with OB/OD technique in
capacity of the CAF.
• The current capacity of destruction by OB/OD technique
in the Armed Forces is about 500 tons/year.
• Industrial demilitarization, in the civilian company ISL
"Spreewerk" in Gospić, have destroyed different types
of ammunition, in quantity of 600 tons (2011./2013.). The
facility demil capacity is around 3000 tons/year.
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Disposal of Surplus Ammunition - continue
Certain quantities of ammunition has destroyed by the
financial support (donation) of the US Government
through MANPADS program:
• In the 2009., late 2011. and early 2012. were destroyed
1,000 pieces of surplus MANPADS (LPRS Strela-2M),
1,000 pieces RPG 22, 1,000 pieces RPG 7 and 34 pieces
of gripstocks for Strela-2M (2 mil $),
• Financial support of 2 mil $ used for upgrading
physical security of ammunition storages.
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Disposal of Surplus Ammunition - continue
• Currently we are in process of preparing new
Implementing Arrangement between MoD and US
Government for financial assistance of surplus
MANPADS destruction.
• Croatia ratified (2009.) the Oslo Convention on the
destruction of cluster munitions stockpile, which
came into force on August 2010. CAF has obligation
to destroy all types of cluster munitions (about 110
tons) to August 2018.
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TNEDICNI EHT FO TLUSER
Ammunition storage incident
In Septemebr 2011. we had incident (fire and explosion)
in the ammunition storage site “Pađene”:
• Quantity of 1700 tons of obsolete and surplus
ammunitions destroyed in fire and explosion.
• The area of 5 km radius contaminated by UXO.
• CAF was engaged significant number of personnel for
UXO cleaning: Support Command, EOD units and
Engineering Battalion – high costs of area cleaning.
• The explosion site cleaning would be completed at the
end of 2013.
• No casualties due to the incident.
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